What's New in Release 0.43

Live Preview supports SCSS & LESS editing if you use a third-party "file watcher" to automatically recompile your CSS on save. Brackets notices the changed CSS file and updates the page (without reloading). You can also use a Brackets extension such as Brackets SASS or LESS AutoCompile for this.

Themes

Improved 'dark mode': Dark themes now cause the overall Brackets UI to become darker, not just the editor area.

Separate Extension Manager tab: Themes are listed separately in Extension Manager so they're easier to find, and the list of extensions stays cleaner.

Change file extension -> language/syntax mode mapping: After changing a file's language using the status bar switcher, you can save the change for all files with that extension by choosing "Set as Default" from the same dropdown. (This was previously accessible only by manually editing preferences).

Linux: Edit menu - The Edit > Cut/Copy/Paste menu items are removed on Linux, because they did not work. These menu items will be restored once a native menu bar is implemented. Keyboard shortcuts for cut/copy/paste still work.

API Changes

window.open() - Only permits 'file://' URLs and 'about:blank', since brackets-shell is not a secure general-purpose web browser. Use NativeApp.openURLInDefaultBrowser() to open webpages in the user's regular browser.

Known Issues

#9002: Brackets freezes during Live Preview if you place the cursor on a line within a CSS/SCSS/LESS block comment that contains nothing but "}" with no indent. (Will be fixed in next release).

#8966: Inline editor is blank if your CSS rule contains a vendor-prefixed property that uses an rgb()/rgba()/hsl()/hsla() color value. (Will be fixed in next release).

Activity Monitor in Mavericks (OS X 10.9) says the Brackets Helper process is "Not Responding" even when it's working normally (#5794). You can safely ignore this unless Brackets is actually failing to respond when you click or type text.

#2272: Windows Vista may not allow the Brackets installer to run (you may not see any error message). To work around this, right-click the installer file, choose Properties, and click the Unblock button.

Debug > Run Tests is disabled in the installer/DMG distributions of Brackets, because the unit test code is not included. To run unit tests, pull Brackets from GitHub instead.